Vol. 1(1)
Date of revised paper submission: 07th June 2016; Date of acceptance: 21st July 2016
Date of publication: 14th August 2016; *First Author / **Corresponding Author; Paper ID: MS16102
Abstract
Corporate Social Responsibility in recent years is playing a pivotal role for bringing all kinds of
development including social and economic and helping in the sustainable growth. CSR means the
way in which business firms integrates environmental, economic and social concerns into their
culture, values, strategy, decision making and operation in an acceptable and transparent manner,
therefore leading to better creation of wealth, better standard of living, better practices in business
organization. In an era of globalization the role of corporate social responsibility has widened
drastically. The main crux of this research paper is to find out the emerging role of corporate social
responsibility in sustainable economic development as well as social development. The findings of the
paper suggest that corporate social responsibility is responsible for economic development provided
the stakeholders show mutual respect for each other. The methods that have been adopted for
reaching to the conclusion are deductive in nature and character. The sources used for collecting data
include books, magazines, journals, periodicals and publications by government agencies,
newspapers. The outcome of the paper if applied properly will definitely help in bringing economic
prosperity on sustainable basis.
Keywords: Sustainable, Globalization, Corporate Social Responsibility, Stake holders, Deductive
1. Introduction
The broad rationale for a new set of ethics for corporate decision making, which
clearly constructs and upholds a organizations social responsibility, arises from the fact that a
business enterprise derives various benefits from society that must require the enterprise to provide
returns to society as well. This establishes the stake of a business organization in good health and well
being of a society of which it is a part. More importantly, in the age of growing emphasis on
transparency and widespread communication, the managers should help their company in
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